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Skip Prichard on Mistakes and Success

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Skip Prichard is the fifth president of OCLC, a global library cooperative that supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. Among Skip’s many passions is his leadership insights blog where he interviews authors and thought leaders and shares his views on a number of topics. His new book is The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future.

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In This Interview, Skip Prichard and I Discuss…

  • His book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future
  • How what you focus on grows
  • That he looks at everybody as a teacher
  • The riddle that’s perplexed him throughout his life
  • Success is when you’re filled with ambition and peace in equal measure at the same time
  • The mistake of accepting excuses
  • Built-in personal accountability
  • How nobody but you can work on your healing
  • Ok, that happened – what are you going to do about it
  • The microphone in our mind
  • Allowing temporary setbacks to become permanent failures
  • Having Grit
  • The very real pain of failure
  • How do you keep going through despair, failure, depression – it’s resilience
  • Are you showing up to the people in the room intentionally?

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Hal Gregersen on Asking Better Questions

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Hal Gregersen is the Executive Director of the Leadership Center at MIT. He is a prolific author and motivational speaker recognized by Thinkers 500 as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Minds. In this episode, Eric and Hal discuss his book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life. 

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In This Interview, Hal Gregersen and I Discuss…

  • His book, Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
  • That whether we know it or not, we’re all living questions
  • Keystone questions
  • Shadow questions
  • How he discovered his questions
  • The heart attack that changed his life
  • His shadow questions
  • Asking better questions
  • Competing Commitments
  • Underlying assumptions
  • Alexander Papaderos
  • How if you want better answers, you’ve got to ask better questions
  • That if you feel stuck you’re probably asking the wrong question
  • Brainstorming questions without answering them
  • Why we don’t ask good questions
  • Catalytic questions that challenge false assumptions
  • How wanting to be right and smart stops us from getting to better questions
  • What if you woke up and asked, what am I dead wrong about today?
  • That if you’re not making big enough mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough
  • The danger of moving into smaller and smaller tribes that are founded on being right
  • Actively seeking passive data – observing and listening
  • The power of the pause
  • Listening to understand vs listening to defend
  • How can I find and reflect the light in you?

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